Successful hacking of the national cadastre has brought real estate transactions to a halt – and revealed the poor state of cybersecurity in the country’s major institutions. Photo illustration: ...

Protesters in Albania hail 'moral victory' after PM Edi Rama declares in Brussels that his government will revisit controversial laws that pave the way for a luxury resort linked to Donald Trump's ...

Getting rid of the Orban-appointed president was a big victory for Hungary’s new government, but the rushed attempt to nominate chess legend Judit Polgar as his successor is its first major blunder.

Former AC Milan and Croatia defender is suspected of illegally obtaining permits to operate a campsite business with the aid of a former head of a county tourism department. Dario Simic at a press ...

Prime Minister Rumen Radev says parliament will likely approve US military aircraft using Bezmer airfield in central Bulgaria for refuelling purposes - after previously criticising the presence of US ...

Rock star and charity founder Haluk Levent is accused of using donations to his high-profile NGO for his own purposes. Haluk Levent. Photo: Haluk Levent/Facebook. Turkish celebrity Haluk Levent and 13 ...

Crisis within the Democratic League of Kosovo, LDK, forces its embattled leader to break off talks to form a governing coalition with Albin Kurti’s Vetevendosje. Lumir Abdixhiku, leader of the ...

European prosecutors charge 22 people in Greece, including four MPs, with involvement in EU agricultural funds fraud. Greek farmers and livestock breeders pritest outside the office of OPEKEPE in ...

BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina’s documentary about rock guitarist Samir ‘Bowie’ Mehic, looking back on his wartime life in besieged Srebrenica before his death in the July 1995 genocide, is available on ...

New World Wide Fund for Nature report says strict legal protections are failing to reverse the decline of the famous caviar-producing fish in the Lower Danube region covering Bulgaria, Romania and ...

BIRN looks inside the ‘wild west’ of private healthcare in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where even licencing rules are flouted. The air-conditioned premises of the Medical Art Centre in Ljubuski, southern ...

In fact, the first report alleging foreigners were paying to access Bosnian Serb positions in the hills around Sarajevo and take potshots at the city’s residents dates to March 30, 1995, when the ...